Winner Take All

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1948–

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"Winner Take All" was the first Goodson-Todman game show to be broadcast on network television. The show had previously been heard on the CBS radio network, with Bill Cullen as host. Two con... Read all"Winner Take All" was the first Goodson-Todman game show to be broadcast on network television. The show had previously been heard on the CBS radio network, with Bill Cullen as host. Two contestants, one the champion and one the challenger, play against each other. Whoever correc... Read all"Winner Take All" was the first Goodson-Todman game show to be broadcast on network television. The show had previously been heard on the CBS radio network, with Bill Cullen as host. Two contestants, one the champion and one the challenger, play against each other. Whoever correctly answered three questions first became the champion and won a prize. In the 1951 daytim... Read all

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One of the first game shows developed by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. From 1948 to 1950 it was a prime-time series hosted by Bud Collyer. In 1951 (on CBS) and 1952 (on NBC) it was a daytime show hosted by Barry Gray (on CBS) and Bill Cullen (on NBC).

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A fascinating relic of early television

This short-lived revival of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman's original 1948 "Winner Take All" was most notable for introducing a young Bill Cullen to a national television audience. Cullen, who would be forever associated with legendary game shows such as "The Name's The Same," "I've Got A Secret" and countless others, shows here why his career endured. Likable, fresh-faced and witty, Cullen has great fun with an array of contestants--shy housewives, cranky retirees, military officers--and handles ad-libbing with ease. The game itself was remarkably dull--first one to answer three questions wins a prize, usually a major appliance the size of a Humvee. It's fascinating to watch the contestants--for whom television is a fresh new novelty--as they struggle with working the buzzer, finding cameras and microphones, and waving to the folks back home. As a study of early 1950s America, and extremely early television style, "Winner Take All" is a fascinating document.